Governor Demands a Probe of Speaker

By

Jacob Gershman

Updated Sept. 7, 2012 10:35 p.m. ET

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday waded forcefully into the controversy surrounding the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal, threatening to authorize his own probe of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's handling of complaints against the lawmaker.

Mr. Cuomo said that unless a state ethics commission agreed to investigate the circumstances behind a confidential, taxpayer-funded settlement of claims against the Brooklyn assemblyman that was...